Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the NumbersISBN: 978-0-471-73513-7
Hardcover
246 pages
August 2006
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Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1: Eldercare Fraud.
Chapter 2: Two Ways to Measure Employment.
Chapter 3: Bush League Economics.
Chapter 4: Long-Term Unemployment Myths.
Chapter 5: The Case of the Phantom Dropouts.
Chapter 6: Participation Rate Follies.
Chapter 7: What Does the Employment-Population Ratio Tell Us?
Chapter 8: May Average Hourly Earnings Rest in Peace.
Chapter 9: Hourly Compensation and the Unemployment Rate.
Chapter 10: Wages and Productivity.
Chapter 11: The Record Profit Boom That Never Happened.
Chapter 12: End the Monthly Madness: The Change in Payroll Employment Data.
Chapter 13: End the Monthly Madness: The Unemployment Rate.
Chapter 14: Greenspan Idolatry.
Chapter 15: Best-Selling Myths: Freakonomics.
Chapter 16:Best-Selling Myths: Nickel and Dimed.
Chapter 17: Dobbs and Jobs.
Afterword.
Notes.
Index.